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12
Sep
Living life to the fullest is a choice. It is your choice. You can just sit thereon your butt and do what you have always done and get the results you’ve always gotten or you can start today to live a better life. It is up to you. You can whine and moan or you can take action. Which will it be? Which do you think is going to make a difference? For so long I was under the belief that overcoming the impossible was the only way to fulfill my zest for life. I’ve learned to embrace what life throws at you, instead of chasing after what it didn’t.
Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Is your life on this insane treadmill? If you aren’t completely happy with your life, then do something different to get better results! It will take a little work, but won’t it be worth it? Isn’t your happiness worth investing a little of your time and energy?
A great life doesn’t just happen. It is created . If you want to live life to its absolute fullest, then you have to make a plan. You’ve got to take specific steps to make it happen.
If you have a passion for something, just go ahead and pursue it. Don’t let others hold you back. Don’t be discouraged by the negative criticisms that may be thrown your way by some of your so-called friends. Don’t let others steal your dreams.
I started this blog about one and a half years ago. It is something that I enjoy doing. I have a couple of friends who have sort of ridiculed me for wasting my time writing my blog. What they failed to appreciate is that it gives me immense satisfaction to see my blog being read by over a thousand people from all over the world on an average day. That satisfaction is priceless and has brought a lot of direction and meaning into my life.
I know we can change the world for the better, one starfish at a time, enjoying the many blessings of life along the way…especially the fascinating people I’m lucky to know….my family, my schoolmates, my friends, my colleagues, my teachers, my relatives and the countless people with whom I have crossed paths in my life journey so far.
I can’t help but be reminded of a TV commercial where a little girl is walking along a beach, throwing washed-up starfish back into the ocean. The message is simple; never doubt that one person can make a difference.
The Power of One. Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks are people that immediately remind me of the power of one. The world became a much better place because of people like them.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence, which helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.
Gandhi...a man who made a huge diffrence!
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children’s and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.
Mother Teresa...a woman who made a huge difference!
Martin Luther King Jr, born January 15 1929, attended lots of public schools and he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen and received his degree in 1948 from Morehouse College from where his father and grandfather graduated. Then in Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman and eventually they had four kids. He is a hero to me because he changed the world with blacks and whites. He brought them together, so look at the world now and think of what it was like then and you’ll just see what he did. He made the races come together and now the blacks and whites can play and go to school together and do business together.
Martin Luther King Jr.....another man who changed the world!
Rosa Parks changed the world because she didn’t give up her seat and would not get off of the bus, she went to jail. She kind of showed them that white people and black people were equal with some of the help of Martin Luther King Jr. She was called “the mother of the modern day civil rights movement, ” because of the things that she did to change the world. Blacks and whites couldn’t drink from the same water fountain, go to the same schools, and also play together, but now they can.
Rosa Parks...a woman who held to her conviction and made a huge difference!
And who can ever forget the image of the lone Chinese man trying to stop a convoy of armour trucks during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989? To this day, the identity of that man remains a mystery but he is regarded as a hero the world over for his courage.
One person. You. Me. Any one of us can have this same influence in the lives of others. Love them today, for we know not what tomorrow holds. Leave them smiling at the end of the day. Touch their lives. Spark their souls. Be that One in someone else’s life… nothing else can compare with the joy in your heart and the gratitude in their eyes as such a moment.
Continue to smile and above all remember that it is not what we do that makes a difference… but who we are. The power of one is within us, it is our very self.
